This morning Indiana University announced that the NCAA sent them five major rule
infractions in addition to what IU's own investigation found last fall.
The allegations include that:
- Head Coach Kelvin Sampson knowingly participated in three-way phone calls with Assistant Coach Rob Senderoff and prospects Yancey Gates, William Buford, Dejuan Blair, Demetri McCamey, Ayodele Coker and Devin Ebanks. He also participated in speakerphone calls with Senderoff and recruit Marcus Morris.
- Sampson was present during one or more recruiting calls placed by Senderoff to prospect Kenny Frease in which Senderoff made phone calls to the student-athlete, then handed the phone to Sampson. Sampson also spoke with the mother of prospect Bud Mackey via Senderoff's cell phone while Senderoff was with Mackey's mother.
- Records showed Senderoff also used his home phone for impermissible recruiting calls on a number of occasions despite Senderoff telling investigators that he had not used his home phone for recruiting calls. In actuality, Senderoff placed at least 30 phone calls that were violations from his home phone.
- Sampson and Assistant Coach Jeff Meyer impermissibly recruited Derek Elston during a two-day sports camp June 30 and July 1, 2007. During that event, Meyer told Elston's high school coach, Travis Daugherty, that Elston would be receiving a scholarship offer from Indiana in the near future. Elston, however, had not completed his activities in the camp, which made contact with him impermissible, and Elston returned to camp activities the following day. It was during this contact that Elston received the t-shirt and backpack in violation of NCAA rules.
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Rob Wunsch about 1 year ago
Great article. Indiana has some tough decisions to make. Not being close to the program I really can't say either way what they should do.
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